Council support for the CAB

Good to see the council supporting the CAB

Dear Member

As you are aware there have been reports in the news about CAB funding, please see below the Council’s position:

Funding for CAB Cornwall

Cornwall Council recognises that the Citizen’s Advice Bureau is a trusted and much valued resource which offers free, independent, confidential and impartial informed advice to those who need it. Its importance in Cornwall is obvious when you realise that in 2011/12, 22,000 individuals contacted CAB Cornwall for advice on more than 72,000 different issues.   

CAB Cornwall has received funding from Cornwall Council since April 2009 to deliver information, advice and advocacy services to communities in Cornwall.

In 2012/13 Cornwall Council provided CAB Cornwall with £406,000 for this purpose and the Council will, despite the very difficult economic climate, be giving CAB the same amount in 2013/14 plus an extra £150,000 to help deliver their valuable services to some of our most vulnerable communities who will potentially be affected by the national welfare benefit reforms.

Sue Swift the Chair of Trustees for CAB Cornwall said: “We are really pleased to receive this additional funding from Cornwall Council to help us maintain our services at the same standard, but it will require us to reorganise how we deliver our services.”

Carolyn Rule

Cabinet Member for Health & Wellbeing and People